Music Reviews: Glam Metal

The Donnas were at a career crossroads in the mid-2000s. Atlantic Records’ revolving door of personnel left the group without the core team of people who helped market them via product placements, both benefiting album sales and landing them major tours. First-year sales of 2004’s Gold Medal were a mere 20% of what 2002’s Spend The Night achieved. Atlantic insisted that The Donnas’ follow-up effort be more rooted in pop and assisted by outside writers. Not aligning... Read More

No other group in the 1980s lived up to the hedonistic rock-and-roll lifestyle than did Mötley Crüe. Emerging from the sleazy Hollywood scene, they sought to craft an entity that was described by bassist Nikki Sixx as, ‘David Bowie and the Sex Pistols thrown in a blender with Black Sabbath.’ Their debaucherous history often eclipses the impact of their recorded output, immortalized in both the memoir and Netflix adaptation The Dirt. It goes without saying that their... Read More